Imported jewelry in tombs in the Romanian heartland reveals brisk trade with Scandinavia and Mesopotamia in antiquity, but why were these gems put inside caves in the first place?
Archaeologists pumping groundwater out of a temple in Aswan found a small sandstone sphinx in terrific condition
Abel Beth Maacah was famed in biblical times for conflict resolution: Now archaeologists have found a strange shrine that may have served the city's 'wise woman'
Archaeologists also suspect ancient robbery: New finds in underground part of the city include a Roman casserole dish that had no business being there
The oldest extra-biblical reference to Yahweh is in a 3,000-year-old Moabite stele, which boasts of defeating Israel, may mention King David – and paints a very different picture of God than the one we know
The stone with the elaborate hashtag, drawn using the world’s first pencil 73,000 years ago, was found in the same layer with shell beads and abstract engravings
Monasteries abound in ancient Israel, but the 1,600-year-old nunnery and women's graveyard built where the miraculously impregnated Hannah, mother of Samuel, is believed to lie are unique
Why Persia’s Xerxes armed his soldiers with images of fruit on their spears, rather than spikes, and other pomegranate facts
Thousands of years ago, nomads set up corrals for their beasts where the Serengeti is today
Stone structures found in the Jordan Valley wasteland may have been erected by the Israelites crossing, very slowly, into Canaan, archaeologists postulate
The Neolithic-era stone figure, which the boy put in a box at home, was recently discovered two years later by his mother, who turned it over to archaeologists
Analysis of stalagmites in caves shows extreme cold lasting a thousand years froze Europe around 40,000 years ago – just about when Neanderthals went extinct
90,000-year-old bone from teenage daughter of Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father shows not only that they mixed, but that they apparently did so frequently
In an effort to monopolize the psychoanalytic movement, Freud started a secret panel and gave each member a gift: An antique ring
Years before Theodor Herzl proposed creating a Jewish state, Charles Taze Russell was traveling the world holding Jewish Mass Meetings, beginning in 1879, at which he urged Jews to find a national home in Eretz Israel
Archaeologists believe a giant cemetery near Lake Turkana was built by egalitarian nomads who buried their dead without distinction of rank
Genetic analysis shows ancient Galilean farmers warmly embraced blue-eyed, fair-skinned immigrants from Iran and Turkey in the late Copper Age
Since rabbis frowned on eating hunted animals, discovery of gazelle remains in the 1,900-year-old Galilean towns hints at parchment industry, say archaeologists
A jar with a mysterious white substance was buried with Ptahmes, the mayor of Memphis, and somehow escaped the attention of grave robbers
In one of Israel’s most expensive restoration projects ever, the city's ancient theater will be revealed, together with about 90 percent of the old city and the port